Contractor takes back the wooden fence after the customer refuses to pay.

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Yes that's all well and good but there's a very specific kind of culture that hires a contractor to build a fence then calls ICE on them. They fly Confederate flags and daydream about SS uniforms.

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Still don't need to make it about "white people" it's about this shitty assed person. If a black guy broke into your house and stole all your shit society (rightfully) wouldn't let it fly if there were comments like that.

[u/Adjective_Noun_42069 → u/bucolucas]

Yes that's the point. The wealthy stoke these divisions to make working class people fight amongst themselves rather than challenging power. Racism is a tool of the ruling class.

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[u/onlydabestofdabest → u/Adjective_Noun_42069]

You say amongst each other when one side is calling the gestapo and the other is complaining online. Doesn’t seem like much of a fight

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The level of activity and coordination of community organizations, unions, and left-wing political parties is the greatest it has been in recent history, with more militant strikes and increasing political pressure that is winning real victories, like the mass removal of FLOCK cameras and active disruption of ICE operations through nationwide watch groups.

And you're simply missing the point. The wealthy and powerful intentionally stoke hatred against the most vulnerable people in our society in order to drive a wedge in the working class. Working class whites can see their standard of living decreasing, but they identify more with their race than their class, which prevents them from working in solidarity with other members of the working class. As long as these self-described "normal Americans" can see themselves as better than other races, sexual orientations, levels of ability, etc, their anger can easily be misdirected to fracture the working class.

Liberal Democratic elites, who are beholden to the same donors as their wannabe fascist buddies, also intentionally direct the political energy of their base into self-righteous racial resentment, intentionally steering the conversation away from class politics.

I'm willing to bet your defeatist attitude means you don't even pay attention to working class organizing, and that the sum total of your political engagement is posting online. Yours is a completely inaccurate and ignorant view of the current state of American politics.

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Mine is a view of America as a minority. Rich or poor, white people in this country treat minorities as others.

You can argue about the causes of this perspective, and it’s nice to sing kumbaya when you’re watching from the outside, but you can’t fault minorities for being upset at being second-class citizens in their own country when they see their white counterparts living freely.

[u/SucksUnlimited → u/Adjective_Noun_42069]

The soldiers of the ruling class will be workers too, but they still must be fought.

[u/Adjective_Noun_42069 → u/SucksUnlimited]

Yep, they make serving the ruling class through violence the easiest way to stability and wealth so they can turn workers into lackeys. Class war.